Home – Johnnyswim
Interpretation by Stephen O’Hora
It’s played with some flourishes on the G chord at the end of each line, the “G-C” is like:
e|----3---3--3---3--3-|
B|--------------------|
G|--------------------|
D|-----------2------2-|
A|----2------3------3-|
E|-3--3---3------3----|
While on the “G” it’s played much like this:
e|----3---3--3---3--3-|
B|--------1------1----|
G|--------------------|
D|--------------------|
A|----2---------------|
E|-3--3---3--3---3--3-|
It’s easy to pick up when you listen to the song to get the rhythm right.
[Verse]
F C G - C
Right around the corner down by the canyon
F C G
I met a man who lost his way
F C G - C
Said I’m born the son of a sailor
F C G
Who never showed me his face
F C G - C
Daddy’s gone and my momma met her maker
F C G
Oh to hell with that place
F C F C
Quit your talking, your sideways walking
F C G
Time to find another path to take
F C F C
Quit your whining your bloodshot crying
F C G
Fake it like your dying never pace
F-C F-C
Just go home
F C G
Ohhh, you need you some home
F C G
you need you some home
F C G
Her name was Peggy Sue and her Daddy hung the moon
F C G
In her eyes he could no wrong
F C G - C
Then he started drinking like there’s a message in the bottle
F C G
Now Daddy’s painting Peggy black and blue
F C
She closes her eyes
F C
Through the heroes demise
F C G
Holds to a hope beyond the sky
F C
Takes a breath
F C
A weight comes off her chest
F C G
Find a way to weather through the storm
[Chorus]
C
She cried out
Ooooohhhh
F C G
I love (need) me some home
F C G
I need me some home
[Verse]
(muted with palm across strings)
F C G
Found myself on a train to California
F C G
25 years of age
F C G (one strum down)
Sat beside me was a lovely rose a wanderer
F C G
Two is always better they say
F C
We made our plans
F C
Gave me her hand
F C G
We ain’t got no time for looking back
F C
I was bruised and beaten
F C
Lost for many reasons
F C G
Only love will make you understand
[Chorus]
(G) F C G
Ooooohhhh I love me some home
F C G
I love me some home
F C G
F C G-C
[Outro]
F C
We are all bruised and beaten
F C
Lost on account of many reasons
F C G
Only love will make you understand
(G) F C G
Ooooohhhh I love me some home
F C G
I love me some home
